"Daaaaamn..."
It was a quiet summer morning in the Tomoe household. Haruka looked at Setsuna, as did Michiru. Hotaru was quietly drinking her miso soup, but still managed to look mystified.
But oddly enough, it was Professor Tomoe who seemed to "get it" first.
"...Oh, ah, Setsuna-san? ...Pluto?"
"Yes."
Setsuna groaned. Haruka and Michiru looked at each other.
"..Huh?"
"- My planet got demoted. Daaaaamn."
Hotaru nearly dropped her miso soup bowl at that, while Haruka and Michiru just stared. The Professor, on the other hand, looked somewhat amused.
"Whaaaaat?"
Pluto groaned.
"The IAU decided that Pluto is a 'dwarf planet', not a real planet, whatever that is. Damn, this is embarrassing... I mean, I wouldn't have minded so much if they'd decided that there were 12 planets instead of 9, like some people were pushing for, but for mine to be demoted..."
Haruka blinked.
"It might have been twelve? Which, um, things were going to be added, in that case?"
"Uh...Ceres, Charon and something called, um, 2003 UB313 - nicknamed Xena, I think."
"Oh."
Michiru seemed to be thinking about that, for a while.
"Oh dear, I see what you mean. But it's not like there's going to be any difference in in your Senshi status or anything like that, is it?"
"Well, of course not."
Setsuna snorted.
"Pluto is still part of the Solar System, and that isn't going to change no matter what any group of scientists thinks, after all."
"Hmmmm."
Prof. Tomoe murmured.
"Setsuna-san - may I ask a question?"
"Surely."
Setsuna smiled at the Professor. They'd been a bit leery when he'd first begun to regain his memories of being Germatoid's host - those couldn't have been good memories at all, even if you put the security aspects aside - but Setsuna was glad that she hadn't tried to erase or suppress those memories, now. Prof Tomoe was undeniably brilliant, and good to have as an ally of sorts.
"Just what is the definition of 'part of the Solar System', or 'part of the same Star System' in, well, Senshi terms?"
Hmmmmm...
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